"Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote ""Captains Courageous"", ""The Jungle Book"", ""The Day's Work"", and ""The Seven Seas"", and did work on ""Kim"" and ""The Just So Stories"". Kipling named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated"
"to be on the deck from which Harvey fell). Disko Troop, captain of the ""We're Here"", bloodies his nose but takes him in as a boy on the crew until they return to port. Harvey comes to accept his situation. Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captain's son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful. Great stories of the cod fishery with references to New England whaling and 19th-century steam and sailing are intertwined with the ""We're Here""'s adventures during a season at sea. Eventually, the schooner returns to"
"spoiled son of American business tycoon Frank Burton Cheyne (Melvyn Douglas). Harvey is shunned by his classmates at a private boarding school, and eventually suspended for bad behavior. His father therefore takes him on a business trip to Europe, travelling there by trans-Atlantic steamship. Mid passage, Harvey falls overboard in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. He is rescued by a Portuguese-American fisherman, Manuel Fidello (Spencer Tracy), and taken aboard the fishing schooner """"We're Here"""", from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Harvey is shocked the schooner's captain, Disko Troop (Lionel Barrymore), intends fishing in the Atlantic for three more months. He fails to persuade"
"Here Comes the Navy Here Comes the Navy (also known as Hey, Sailor) is a 1934 American romantic comedy film. written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh. Stuart was Oscar-nominated 63 years later for another nautical epic, ""Titanic"" (1997). Riveter ""Chesty"" O'Conner (James Cagney) and his best friend, ""Droopy"" (Frank McHugh), join the US Navy to annoy O'Connor's nemesis, Chief Petty Officer ""Biff"" Martin (Pat O'Brien). O'Conner gets himself court-martialled for being AWOL while visiting Martin's sister Dorothy (Gloria Stuart). Disgruntled at his"
"lot. Among them is their consensus leader, a middle-aged Irishman named Driscoll (""Drisk"") (Thomas Mitchell), a young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), a spiteful steward nicknamed Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald), a brooding Lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter), and a burly, thoroughly dependable bruiser Davis (Joseph Sawyer), among others. The film opens on a sultry night in a port in the West Indies where the crew have been confined to their ship by order of the captain, yet they yearn as ever for an opportunity to drink and have fun with the ladies. Drisk has arranged to import a boat-load"
"Down Periscope Down Periscope is a 1996 American submarine/military comedy film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Robert Lawrence, directed by David S. Ward, that stars Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, and Rob Schneider. The film co-stars Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton, William H. Macy, and Rip Torn. Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge fights to save his naval career while also being saddled with a group of misfit seamen brought together as the crew of his first command, USS ""Stingray"", a rusty, obsolete World War II-era diesel submarine recommissioned to participate in a special naval war game. Lt. Commander Thomas Dodge is"
"the captain to take him back to New York nor can he convince him of his wealth; but Captain Disko offers Harvey temporary crew membership until they return to port. Harvey is reluctant to do real work but eventually accepts. Befriended by Captain Troop's son, Dan (Mickey Rooney), he becomes acclimated to the demanding fishing lifestyle. The ""We're Here"" fills with fish they catch. When a prank of Harvey's causes a fish hook to lodge in a crewman's arm, Manuel defends the boy. In the climactic race back to the Gloucester, Massachusetts port against a rival schooner, the ""Jennie Cushman"","
"with most of its crew being lost. Being a voluntary castaway, Selkirk was able to gather numerous provisions to help him to survive, including a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and clothing. He survived on the island for four years and four months, building huts and hunting the plentiful wildlife before his rescue on 2 February 1709. His adventures are said to be a possible inspiration for ""Robinson Crusoe"", a novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. Philip Ashton, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1702, was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia"
"1815. The fictional HMS ""Surprise"" was a sixth rate ship. It was the frigate captained by Jack Aubrey and was based on the actual historical frigate, formerly the French ""Unité"", which was captured and renamed by the Royal Navy in 1796. The Surprise plays a prominent role in many of Patrick O'Brian's popular novels, collectively known as the Aubrey–Maturin series, and was portrayed in the 2003 film """". In the novel ""Mason and Dixon"" by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship ""Seahorse"". The novel ""The Watering"
"""Arkhangelsk"" (Typhoon #5) TK-20 ""Severstal"" (Typhoon #6) Satellite photos Interior photos Probably the best-known fictional Typhoon-class submarine was the stealth equipped ""Red October"", the subject of the Tom Clancy novel ""The Hunt for Red October"" and its 1990 movie adaptation, starring Sean Connery as the fictional Captain Marko Ramius. The 2001 documentary ""Mission Invisible"" about the Russian submarine ""Severstal"" was produced by Corona Films for Discovery Channel with the participation of ZED, France 5, ZDF, RTBF, TV5 Monde and the Scottish Screen Fund. In 2008 National Geographic released a documentary about the scrapping of one of the Typhoons in the"
"try and grab it. Peter Beidler, in his ""A Reader's Companion to J. D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"""", identifies the movie that the prostitute ""Sunny"" refers to. In chapter 13 she says that in the movie a boy falls off a boat. The movie is ""Captains Courageous"" (1937), starring Spencer Tracy. Sunny says that Holden looks like the boy who fell off the boat. Beidler shows (page 28) a still of the boy, played by child-actor Freddie Bartholomew. Each Caulfield child has literary talent. D.B. writes screenplays in Hollywood; Holden also reveres D.B. for his writing skill (Holden's"
"Plymouth Adventure Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 Technicolor drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch from the novel ""The Plymouth Adventure"" by Ernest Gébler. The supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Dawn Addams, Lloyd Bridges and John Dehner. The film was veteran director Brown's final one. The film tells a fictionalized version of the Pilgrims' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to North America aboard the ""Mayflower"". During the long sea voyage, Capt. Christopher"
"setting, this Warner production has the added advantage, in these parlous times, of being beyond censorial reproach."" ""Here Comes the Navy"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Here Comes the Navy Here Comes the Navy (also known as Hey, Sailor) is a 1934 American romantic comedy film. written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh. Stuart was Oscar-nominated 63 years later for another nautical epic, ""Titanic"" (1997). Riveter ""Chesty"" O'Conner (James Cagney) and his best friend, ""Droopy"" (Frank McHugh), join the"
"may be unsuited to his command. The book illustrates the difficulties of the Atlantic war: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty using HF Radio & early manual cryptography. The story is currently being adapted into a motion picture, ""Greyhound"", scripted by and starring Tom Hanks, directed by Aaron Schneider, produced by Gary Goetzman. Principal photography began in Spring 2018 aboard the USS ""Kidd"". The film is due for release"
"shot in various locations on the Isle of Man, and distributed by Columbia TriStar and Fries Film Group. The vessel used to portray the Hispaniola was the tall ship Earl of Pembroke. Producer Adrienne Gruben was nominated for the 2001 Independent Spirit Awards. Treasure Island (1999 film) Treasure Island is a 1999 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It was written and directed by Peter Rowe and stars Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins and Jack Palance as Long John Silver. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to"
"No specific real life captain completely matches Aubrey, but the exploits of two naval captains inspired events in the novels, Captain Thomas Cochrane, and Captain William Woolsey. Cochrane used the ruse of placing a light on a floating barrel at night to avoid capture. Woolsey, aboard HMS ""Papillon"", disguised a ship under his command as a commercial boat; on discovering information that a rogue ship was on the other side of a small island, he sailed around the island and captured the Spanish ship by stratagem, on April 15, 1805. The film combines elements from 13 different novels of Patrick"
""""" was based on Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. The ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" series of films also includes the Navy as the force pursuing the eponymous pirates. Noël Coward directed and starred in his own film ""In Which We Serve"", which tells the story of the crew of the fictional HMS ""Torrin"" during the Second World War. It was intended as a propaganda film and was released in 1942. Coward starred as the ship's captain, with supporting roles from John Mills and Richard Attenborough. C. S. Forester's Hornblower novels have been adapted for television. The Royal Navy was the subject"
"a fire in the hold. On the way home the salvaged vessel ""Arno"" makes landfall at Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly before docking at Falmouth, Cornwall. Reference is made to the pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main, notably the English Sir Francis Drake. As the novel predates satellite navigation by several decades, the ""Langdale"" uses celestial navigation and a successful voyage depends on accurate sextant readings and mathematical calculation unaided by calculators. The method is explained at some length. Sea Change (Armstrong novel) Sea Change is a realistic children's adventure novel by Richard Armstrong, first published by Dent in"
"to hang. Del Toro intervenes on his behalf, however, and reveals that Kit is his own son. Frank Yerby's novel was published n 1948. The book was a best seller, selling 1,863,000 copies. In 1951 it was announced Sterling Hayden and Rhonda Fleming would star in a film version. The Golden Hawk The Golden Hawk is a 1952 American adventure film, directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Rhonda Fleming and Sterling Hayden, based on the novel of the same name by Frank Yerby. French sea captain Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo sails the seas in the 17th century in command of"
"Suisun Bay. Additionally, contractual arrangements were made with ""Crowley Marine Services, Inc."" who provided tractor tug towing services from San Pablo Strait to the ""SBRF"" basin, Benicia, California. The ""Pigeon"" vessel was placed at Anchorage 5, in September 2005. ""Pigeon"" was towed to Brownsville, Texas for scrapping in January 2012. In Tom Clancy's novel ""The Hunt for Red October"", USS ""Pigeon"" was the ship that rescued Soviet seamen from renegade ballistic missile submarine ""Red October"" after Captain Ramius fakes a shipboard emergency. USS ""Pigeon"" and her DSRV were prominently featured in the 1978 disaster film ""Gray Lady Down"" by Universal"
"eyes. The head apparatus which could move like a rocking horse was employed when actors were in the water with the whale. Gregory Peck's last speech is delivered in the studio while riding the white whale's hump (a hole was drilled in the side of the whale so Peck could conceal his real leg). The ""Pequod"" was portrayed by, appropriately, the ""Moby Dick"". Built in England in 1887 as the ""Ryelands"", the ship came into the hands of the film industry in the 50s, and was also used in ""Treasure Island"". It was destroyed by fire in Morecambe, England in"
"1975. ""The Hunt for Red October"" launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist, especially after then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan remarked that he had enjoyed reading the book. A film adaptation was released on March 2, 1990, and several computer and video games based on the book have been developed. Since then, the book has become instrumental in bringing the book genre of techno-thriller into the mainstream. During the Cold War, Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy submarine commander of Lithuanian descent, plans to defect to the United States with his hand-picked officers on board the ballistic missile submarine ""Red October"", a"
"the capability of carrying the heavy aerial bombs that were needed. Instead, they carried out the perilous mission of suppressing enemy anti-aircraft fire. Film rights were purchased by the team of George Seaton and William Perlberg, who had a production unit at Paramount. They wanted Spencer Tracy for the role of admiral, but this was played by Frederic March. Exteriors were shot aboard ""USS Oriskany"" and ""USS Kearsarge"", 27,100-ton s standing in for USS ""Savo Island"". The aircraft used in the film is the Grumman F9F-2 Panther, a Korean War workhorse still in service and equipping the air groups of"
"Trek"" and its 2013 sequel, ""Star Trek Into Darkness"". Captain Pike and the ""Enterprise"" appear in the second season of """"; the trailer for the season shows Pike (Anson Mount) taking temporary command of the USS ""Discovery"" in a crisis situation. According to dialogue in ""The Cage"", he is from the city of Mojave on Earth and once owned a horse named Tango. Pike is the second captain of the USS ""Enterprise"" NCC-1701 and the first to be shown in ""Star Trek"" canon. The reveals that Captain Robert April predated Pike, and printed ""Star Trek"" fiction and reference books also"
"Sparrow was added to it. He headlined the Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and is the subject of spin-off novels, including a children's book series """", which chronicles his teenage years. Captain Jack Sparrow first appears in """" (2003) when he arrives in Port Royal in Jamaica to commandeer a ship. Despite rescuing Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann (Jonathan Pryce), from drowning, he is jailed for piracy. That night, a cursed pirate ship called ""Black Pearl"" attacks Port Royal and Elizabeth is kidnapped. ""Black Pearl""s captain, Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush),"
"being sought for treason. Dalton, in his vessel ""Fury"", escorts merchant ships through North American waters, protecting them from English and rebel ships. This novel is set in 1778. In the novel Dalton fights a pirate who has taken advantage of the disorder that the American War of Independence has caused to prey on merchant vessels. Parkinson wrote adventure spin-off trilogy based on ABC's short-lived ""Timecop series,"" which was inspired by the successful Jean-Claude Van Damme film, ""Timecop,"" from Universal Studios. The trilogy continues the adventures of TEC agent Jack Logan as he hunts down rogue travelers and brings them"
"the perspective of Mary Rowlandson, an Englishwoman who was captured and spent some time in the company of Native Americans during the war. Later works, such as ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, have provided a romantic and partially fictionalized account of life in Plymouth Colony. There are also numerous films about the Pilgrims, including the several film adaptations of """"The Courtship of Miles Standish""""; the 1952 film ""Plymouth Adventure"" starring Spencer Tracy; and ""Desperate Crossings: The True Story of the Mayflower"", a 2006 television documentary produced by the History Channel. In 1970, the United States Postal"
"making it one of the best-selling books of 2015. It landed atop all the major best-seller lists including the aforementioned ""The New York Times"", and ""Publishers Weekly"", ""USA Today"" and No. 2 on ""Amazon"". Its film adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood and featuring Bradley Cooper as Kyle was released in 2014. ""American Sniper"" tells the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who completed four tours in Iraq from 1999–2009. The book describes Kyle's upbringing in Odessa, Texas, Navy SEAL training, and combat experiences in Iraq. Kyle describes his role in the battle for control of Ramadi, events that led"
"he was abducted, Dexter arranges to have the vessel return to port. Meanwhile, Captain Morgan has fallen ill, fears that he is dying, and commands Patience to marry Siggs as his last wish. She reluctantly agrees. Dexter arrives just in time to save Patience, and the lovers are reunited at the end. William Walcott as Captain Charles W. Morgan<br>Marguerite Courtot as Patience<br>Raymond McKee as Allan Dexter<br>Clara Bow as Dot<br>J. Thornton Baston as Samuel Siggs<br>Patrick Hartigan as Jake Finner The film contains semi-documentary footage of whalers at work, and was shot on historic locations in Massachusetts, New England, most notably in"
"Captain Horatio Hornblower Captain Horatio Hornblower (a.k.a. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, ""R.N."" standing for ""Royal Navy"") is a 1951 British-American naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: ""The Happy Return"" (""Beat to Quarters"" in the United States), ""A Ship of the Line"", and ""Flying Colours"". Forester is credited with the screen adaptation; as a result, the film is faithful to his novels and"
"in Dickens' novel. The unit for the location work for the film was based on a derelict naval fort on Darnett Ness Island in the River Medway. The script is a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel. It was inspired after David Lean witnessed an abridged 1939 stage version of the novel, by Alec Guinness. Guinness had played Herbert Pocket, and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham in the stage version of 1939. The script for the film was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. David Lean approached Clemence Dane to write the script, but"
"which starts, ""When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt"". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in ""The Times"" of 23 November 1892. Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Harvey accuses the captain, Disko Troop of taking his money (which is later revealed"
"Unicorn (ship) The Unicorn () is a fictional 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel appearing in ""The Adventures of Tintin"", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The ship plays a leading role in both ""The Secret of the Unicorn"" and ""Red Rackham's Treasure"", published in 1943 and 1944, respectively. The ""Unicorn"" also appears in the 2011 film adaptation """". In the ""Tintin"" adventures, the ""Unicorn"" is the setting of a battle between pirates and sailors followed by a duel between its captain, Sir Francis Haddock (an ancestor of Captain Haddock) and the pirate Red Rackham. The ""Unicorn"" is scuttled"